Hillary Unleashes Her Inner Macho

Belatedly, the Clinton campaign has come to realize that white men represent the critical swing vote of the 2008 primaries. When Hillary captured the white male vote, she has won 9 out of 14 contests. But when the good-ol'-boys gave the nod to Barack, he triumphed in 9 of the 15 races. [www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/080313]

Problem is, Hillary has been rubbing a lot of persons the wrong way with her girl-power jokes and "Iron my Shirt" pranks.

Earlier this month the Democratic elders began to call for Clinton's withdrawal from the race. Predictably, Hillary's surrogates screamed "misogyny" and pushed back with the claim that "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels."

So how is Hillary going to pull off her kiss-and-make-up with the male electorate? Well, simple — if she can't beat the boys, why not join 'em!

So on April 1 — April Fool's Day, for those who noticed — Mrs. Clinton showed up on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and invoked the memory of Rocky Balboa, legendary boxer of film fame. Putting on her best he-man imitation, she exclaimed, "Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up."

A few days later she shared one of her fondest childhood memories. "You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl," she related. Waxing sentimental, she added, "People enjoyed hunting and shooting because it's an important part of who they are."

(Note to Second Amendment advocates: Before getting excited over this political pabulum, be sure to check out Hillary's record on gun control. On at least 17 different occasions, she has issued statements on the need to restrict access to guns, including her 2000 proposal to license and register handgun sales: www.ontheissues.org/2008/Hillary_Clinton_Gun_Control.htm .)

But by mid-April the non-stop campaigning began to take its toll and Mrs. Clinton hankered for some quality time with the boys. So she sauntered over to Bronko's Restaurant and Lounge in Crown Point, Ind.

Sidling up to the bar, she ordered the bartender's finest. In full view of the cameras she took a sip of the Crown Royal whiskey, then threw her head back and finished off the rest of the shot.

Then wiping off the dried tobacco spittle around her mouth with the back of her sleeve, Mrs. Clinton let loose a guttural "Ahhhh" and ordered up a round of Jack Daniels for all the blurry-eyed gents huddled around the bar. (I made up that part.)

As Pennsylvania voters streamed to the polls this past Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton appeared on ABC. Asked about the looming threat from Iran, Clinton indulged in some high-profile saber-rattling. "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm president, we will attack Iran," she warned. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."

Totally obliterate them? Goodness gracious, if Senator McCain ever uttered those words, he'd be tarred, feathered, and sent packing to Arizona.

Even after she won the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton continued her belligerent rhetoric. On Tuesday evening she cut loose with a victory stem-winder, reiterating the words "fight," "fighter," and "fighting."

History shows very time a Democrat's campaign is on the ropes, the beleaguered candidate tries, somewhat pathetically, to play the macho.

Remember the time when Michael Dukakis donned his helmet, military coveralls, and red tie, and crawled into the gun turret of a 63-ton M-1 battle tank?

Don't forget that Al Gore paid feminist Naomi Wolf $15,000 to turn him into a beta male.

And do you recall John Kerry's quail-hunting romp? By the time the cameras caught up with the hunting party, he was no longer holding the bagged birds. Teresa would not have approved.

So as Hillary Clinton tries to restart her quixotic bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, it's inevitable that she would try to portray herself as a gun-toting, military-loving fighter working on behalf of the common man.

I hate this election! I hate that we have to vote for one of three candidates, none of whom inspires any faith or encourages any trust and excitement for a better future. Most especially the Democrat candidates, but the GOP guy is no great white hope either!

The quandry we face is:

1) If we are not for Obama we are racists.
2) The blacks can all be for Obama based on his skin color, not anything he can do or has done, and they have said so. One woman on FOX even commented that the blacks will support "their own." But, of course, that is not considered racist, and no one seems to care.
3) If women are for Hillary they are feminists. If woman are against Hillary they are part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
4) And, of course, if Hillary would be elected, we would all suffer the consequence of Bill there in the WH who has already proven that he is convinced this is another "two-for." If we don't want that, we are called vindictive.
5) If we are for McCain we are ignoring our conservative base and values.
6) If we are against McCain we will hand the election to the liberal Democrats, and cave in like wounded dogs.
These are not all points that I agree with, but they are points that are out there, being talked about. They are points that are driving me nuts and making me angry that there is even an election at all. There does not seem to be anything or anyone we can hang our hat on and happily cast our votes.

I wish I would wake up and discover this whole campaign season was just a bad dream and we could start all over. I have had enough! I have had enough of the lies, the spins, the blatent racist remarks, the anti-American speeches, the outsiders speaking where they don't belong for their own self-gratification, the media trying to predict and control the outcome, and the constant whinning from all candidates that things are hard for them. If it is so hard, so tiring, so intrusive in your lifestyles, then get out and let us all alone and end this misery for us. All of it makes me sick.

I won't threaten to not vote, that is stupid. But I have no happiness about the opportunity I once cherished, that is: to pick our President. I am not happy with any of the three candidates to run my country. Yes, McCain might be the lesser of the three problematical entities, but my greatest concern is how much more divided this country will be when he is in office. Nothing is getting done now. The Democrat Congress has been a waste - all destructive talk, no constructive action. The future with McCain in the Oval Office will be more of the same and become a more bitter battleground. I don't want to endure four years of that. I don't want that country for my children and grandchildren.

I am sick of all the politicians thinking only of themselves, their careers, their local constituents, and putting on the phony "political correctness" concerned face for the minority activists they want to please - when this is a country founded on majority rule!!!

I want a strong president, to take a stand, make decisions by considering all the options, not just those his party supports, and one who will defend us against our enemies - outside and inside this country. The that's not-fair, that's not equal talk has brought this country to a standstill and I long for a president who will guide by the example and take us forward by leading people to attain adulthood and "grow up and suck it up, and help themselves."

I know we can't go back to days when there was some cooperation between the parties, and when people took pride in overcoming their problems themselves and didn't expect entitlements and handouts and a soft shoulder to cry on so they didn't have to sacrafice and work hard to get ahead. But I had hoped that those who want to take this country forward won't take it forward into a wasteland of dependency with their immoral, unethical, dishonest, fraudulent and subversive plans and hidden agendas to make people believe the goverment is the "fix it all for me" answer. At this stage, all I can see, and all that I hear makes me feel that is just what will happen.

Maybe this can be compaired to a hateful, hurtful divorce, and neither cares about the whole of the family anymore. We are not in love and working toward a unified goal, we are continually tearing down (me included, I must admit) and pulling apart. We have nothing left to unite us, there is no common interest. Everyone is concerned about the "ME, Myself and I" and what they will get -- and not the "WE" of this country and what they might have to give to make it greater. This marriage is dissolving. United we once stood. Divided and concerning ourselves with only our own satisfaction, we are falling all over the place.

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